American Society of Plant Biologists

[17] In 2000, it published the first edition of the textbook Biochemistry & Molecular Biology of Plants.

[18][19] The society has given the Charles Reid Barnes Life Membership Award since 1925.

[21] As of 2007, the society began to designate Fellows of the ASPB for "long-term contributions to plant biology".

[23] The first President of the Society was Charles Albert Shull (1924–1925), with founder R. B. Harvey as Secretary-Treasurer.

[7][1] Other presidents of the Society include Harry Beevers (1961–1962)[24][25] and Aubrey Naylor (1960–1961).